AN ACCOUNT OF A VOYAGE TO NEW SOUTH WALES, To which is prefixed a Detail of His Life, Trials, Speeches, &c. &c. Enriched with beautiful Coloured Prints. Modern quarter burgundy morocco over marbled sides - 1803

London, printed for M. Jones, No.1. Paternoster Row, 1803.. FIRST EDITION 1803. 8vo, approximately 210 x 125 mm, 8¼ x 5 inches, engraved frontispiece portrait of the author, engraved title page with hand coloured vignette of an aborigine fishing from a boat, a folding hand coloured map of NSW, plus 9 hand coloured plates including 4 views of Sydney: Town and Cove of Sydney, Garden Island, East View of Sydney, Entrance of Paramatta River, A Native Family, The Cape of Good Hope, The Peak of Teneriffe, Pinchgut Island, Spotted Hyena and Camelopard, the last 2 on 1 plate, pages: [8], 1-467, (5 - index), lacking Directions to the Binder, not always included in this edition, bound in modern quarter burgundy morocco over marbled sides, raised bands, gilt rules and gilt ship motif in compartments, 2 gilt lettered labels, new cream endpapers. Pale age-browning and foxing to many pages, pale age-browning to margins of plates, small patch of browning to top inner corner of pages 438-442, occasional small spot or stain, a good copy only. The book is not only on Australia, it has sections on the customs in South America, Canary Islands, Van Diemen's Land, Africa, China.The Life of Barrington occupies 72 pages. See: J. R. Abbey, Travel in Aquatint and Lithography 1770-1860, Volume II, No. 606 (with plate list); Ferguson, Bibliography of Australia, Volume I, No. 367; Bibliographia Brasiliana by Borba de Moraes, page 68; The Hill Collection of Pacific Voyages, page 14; Tooley, English books With Coloured Plates, 1790-1860, page 94. MORE IMAGES ATTACHED TO THIS LISTING, ALL ZOOMABLE, FURTHER IMAGES ON REQUEST. POSTAGE AT COST.